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The suffix "dosis" or "osis", from ancient Greek, simply means "an abnormal or diseased state" of the word to which it is attached, as in "lordosis", "scoliosis" and kyphosis" which describe abnormal curvatures of the spine, "neurosis" an early generic term for certain mental illnesses and "endometriosis" in which uterine tissue grows elsewhere in the abdominal cavity.

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